Feng Xiaochen is here, and Jiang Xianyu will not be able to discuss with Zhou Ting and Xu Zhiyuan anymore. He greeted the two, and then accompanied Feng Xiaochen to leave the discussion site and walked to the big open space outside. Along with them, Leng Feiyun, Wu Shican, and several middle-level cadres from the Chemical Design Institute and the Petrochemical Design Institute came out with them, all of whom rushed to Binhai at the invitation of the equipment company to participate in the conference battle.

After determining the strategy of developing a set of synthetic ammonia process with independent intellectual property rights based on the ruthenium catalyst process, the Equipment Industry Company issued a notice to the relevant units, asking them to dispatch elite soldiers to the construction site of Binhai No. 2 Fertilizer Plant to participate in technical research. Those who received the notice were Xinyang No. 2 Chemical Machine, Beihua Machinery, National Chemical Design Institute and Petrochemical Design Institute, in addition to some individual experts in scientific research institutes, which were invited by Feng Xiaochen and Wu Shican on the basis of personal relationships, and did not go through formal organizational channels.

At the time of the notice, the equipment company did not say anything about the ruthenium catalyst process, but only said that it planned to implement some technological innovations in the Binhai II project, so it was necessary to invite experts to consult. Only after the designated experts, scholars, and engineers were in place did Leng Feiyun explain the truth to everyone, and asked everyone to keep it strictly confidential and absolutely not to leak the information to the outside world, lest the Japanese discover the Chinese plan, and then create new branches.

These people invited by the equipment company have been immersed in the chemical field for many years and know what a new process with independent intellectual property rights means to the country. Don't look at the discouragement that some people will say when they complain on weekdays, such as what China can't do and how others are in foreign countries, but when it comes to being able to make an innovation on their own, most people are enthusiastic.

According to Leng Feiyun's report to Feng Xiaochen, these days, the experts have forgotten to sleep and eat, and have gone all out to invest in the research and development of new processes. The ruthenium catalyst process was first led by Wang Hongtai, because the funds were provided by the Heavy Equipment Office, so the patents generated in the research also belonged to the Heavy Equipment Office. After the revocation of the rearmament office, these patents were transferred to the equipment industry company, which had some internal knowledge that could not be leaked to the outside world, in addition to the public knowledge disclosed in the patent application report. This time, Feng Xiaochen ordered to take out this knowledge and share it with the experts who participated in the research, some time ago, the main task of the experts is to digest this knowledge, and at the same time propose modifications to the existing process according to this knowledge, so as to form a complete set of new processes.

The proposal of a new process is not to overthrow all the original old processes, but to innovate on the basis of the old processes. The biggest difference between the ruthenium catalyst process and the traditional process is only the different catalysts used. Compared with the iron-based catalysts used in the traditional process, the conversion efficiency of ruthenium-based catalysts can be increased by nearly 20%, and the stability is better, and it has strong toxicity resistance, that is, it is insensitive to impurities such as water, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, etc., which is very important for simplifying the reaction device.

The equipment company proposed to develop a new process based on the ruthenium catalyst, in fact, it is to combine these characteristics of the ruthenium catalyst, modify the unsuitable part of the original process device, add some necessary devices, and delete some unnecessary devices. The magnitude of this improvement can be large or small, the big improvement can give full play to the advantages of the ruthenium catalyst, if because of the constraints of time, technology and other aspects, can only make some small improvements, it doesn't matter, at best, the efficiency of the ruthenium catalyst can not be fully utilized, the original can increase the efficiency by 20%, now only 10%, which is also harmless.

The most important thing is that as long as the basic technology is improved, the Chinese side can be exempted from the restrictions of the Iketani process license and have the right to export independently. In the final analysis, China has actually mastered a lot of technology, but it is limited by patent protection, and you can't use this technology if you have it, otherwise it will violate international trade rules. But when everyone really wants to flip the table and ignore international rules, who cares about your patent protection? If you want to fight a trade war, you have to make up reasons to say that others have violated WTO rules, instead of directly flipping the table. Because it knows that if the table is flipped and everyone doesn't pay attention to the rules, many of its technical advantages will not exist, and I really think that China can't imitate its chips?

That's for later.

"Everyone's worked hard. ”

After standing in a circle in the open space, Feng Xiaochen smiled and said hello to everyone. This is the construction site, and Leng Feiyun couldn't find enough chairs for everyone to sit and chat in a hurry, so he simply stood. The people who can be invited by the equipment company, in addition to excellent technology, the spirit of cooperation is also very good, and they will not ask for various treatments pretentiously. Feng Xiaochen secretly thought in his heart that if he really invited Wang Hongtai and asked him to stand in the sun and discuss problems with everyone, I don't know if he would be unhappy.

"It's not hard, it's what we should do. ”

"Mr. Feng, you and Minister Wu are running around and contacting experts and scholars, which is the hardest part. ”

"Hehe, don't hide it from Mr. Feng, it is my wish for half my life to engage in our own synthetic ammonia process, and now I finally see hope, I am full of energy, what is it to work hard?"

"That's right, that's right, this process can really be done, that's so relieving!"

Everyone responded in a chaotic manner, and Feng Xiaochen could feel the enthusiasm and excitement in their words. Morale is available, this is Feng Xiaochen's most direct feeling, in the past ten years, everyone put down their bodies, bitterly haha, and even learned advanced experience from abroad, and today there has been a very solid accumulation, and it is time to accumulate steadily. At that time, a young technician abroad could command in front of China's old engineers, and if you want to say that everyone is not holding a breath in their hearts, it would be too much to overestimate everyone's Buddha nature. finally had a chance to slap his face back, who is not eager to try.

"By the way, Mr. Feng, didn't you say that you went to Pujiang to invite Professor Wang a few days ago? Why didn't he come, only a doctoral student came?" asked the director of the design office named Bao Jianlin of the Chemical Design Institute. In the same chemical circle, Bao Jianlin knows Wang Hongtai, and also knows that he is the main researcher of ruthenium catalyst technology, although many technical information can be seen in the hands of equipment companies, but some research experience is not learned by others, only the parties themselves can understand.

Feng Xiaochen smiled faintly and said, "It's quite unfortunate that we went, Professor Wang happened to be unwell and had to go to the hospital for physiotherapy every day, so he couldn't come for the time being." ”

"Oh. Everyone responded softly, and they didn't know if they really believed Feng Xiaochen's explanation, or if they realized something else. The academic circle is so big, who is what virtue, everyone has heard of it, Wang Hongtai is less than 40 years old, no matter how unwell he is, how bad can he be? Some people even recalled that when the meeting was held in Huangshan last month, Wang Hongtai was also one of the guests, walking like flying when he went up the mountain, and he also talked and laughed with a beautiful scholar from a certain unit, why did he have to go to physical therapy every day in a blink of an eye, and his waist was so careless?

"This Xu Zhiyuan, what is the level?"

Feng Xiaochen diverted the topic of Wang Hongtai, pouted at the small open space inside, and asked everyone.

"The level is very good, the foundation is very solid. Jiang Xianyu hurriedly answered, he used two words "very" to describe it, obviously quite satisfied with Xu Zhiyuan, maybe there was still the idea of prying the corner of the wall to get Xu Zhiyuan to the Beihua machine.

Leng Feiyun added: "The most important thing is that this Dr. Xu has a very positive attitude towards work, and has been climbing the pipe with everyone in the past few days, working hard and complaining. Yesterday, he fell off the pipe and twisted his foot, and now he is still limping when he walks, but as you can see, he is still discussing the process with Director Jiang and them. ”

"Mmmm, the lad is very nice, a little bit of the energy we had when we were younger. ”

"I can't help but want to invite him to our postdoc, but I don't know if he can take a fancy to our little temple. ”

"Tsk, Wang Hongtai is so ...... Hehe, the students are really good. ”

Feng Xiaochen interrupted everyone's emotion, and then asked: "Since this is the case, if Professor Wang can't come, will everyone think the problem of ruthenium catalyst process will be affected?"

Jiang Xianyu pondered for a moment and said, "Actually, if Professor Wang doesn't come over, it won't have much impact on us. We have mastered the general process principle, the patent is also in the hands of the equipment company, and some industrial problems, Professor Wang, as a scholar in the university, may not know more than us who are engaged in design. What's more, Xu Zhiyuan knows no less than his mentor, I discussed it with Zhou Gong and him just now, and I think he can explain many issues very clearly, and it is enough to have him on the spot. ”

"Then I will inform Professor Wang, let him recuperate with peace of mind, and when he is in good health, he will come over for guidance. Feng Xiaochen said. With his identity, he said it so politely, it was obviously hating Wang Hongtaila, who said that Xiao Feng was not the kind of person who would repay him?

Bao Jianlin heard the subtext in Feng Xiaochen's words, but he didn't go down to the ground to echo it, but changed the topic and said: "Mr. Feng, there are basically no obstacles to the basic process of synthetic ammonia now. However, the process of some peripheral key equipment, we are still subject to the Iketani side, and they will make a fuss about these peripheral processes. ”

"Yes, that's what we're worried about right now. Jiang Xianyu said, "Including the conversion furnace, decarbonization system, air compressor, syngas compressor, there are some patents that belong to Iketani and some foreign companies in the United States and the Netherlands. ”